Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social org...anizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I... will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The goal for all blind skiers is more freedom. You don't have to see where you're going, as long as you go. In skiing, you ski wit...h your legs and not with your eyes. In life, you experience things with your mind and your body. And if you're lacking one of the five senses, you adapt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she had a cock, hight Chanticleer. In all the land, of crowing n'as his peer;... His voice was merrier than the merry organ On masse-days that in the churche gone. Well sikerer was his crowing in his lodge Than is a clock or an abbey horologe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequ...ently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a journey; and I doubt t...hat experience would cause us to avoid them, if we could travel the same road twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition can be a very intense experience and a very rewarding one, or it can be enormously destructive. External pressure, whe...ther it's exerted by a coach, a school, a ski club, or a country, is what can make it a negative thing. When they use you to satisfy their need to succeed, when they impose their value system on you, then competition isn't personally rewarding anymore.... You're either a winner or a loser.... There's no way in my mind that you can divide humanity into those two categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag ab...out it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die--at least not in the act--and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shew'd him his room where he must lodge that night, Pull'd off his Boots, and took away the light:... If any ask for him, it shall be sed, Hobson has supt, and 's newly gon to bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven,... And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »